64 THE FEEBLY INHIBITED. 



a year. Had blue spells. Killed on track by express train. Sibs: i-cf, 

 deliberate, worried; was more or less of a shut-in personality; obstinate; a 

 daughter and a son have sick headaches. 2-0", drank heavily. 3- 9 , of an 

 even disposition ; made friends easily ; was capable. 



Father's father. — Drank and had shaking-spells thereafter. 



Father's mother. — Good health. 



Mother. — Worries about family affairs; has reserved manner and average 

 intelligence. Sibs: i-d\ farmer; depressed at 40; gradually became eccen- 

 tric, suspicious, and had delusions of persecution ; talked to himself ; preached 

 when alone in the fields; dementia precox developed. 



Mother's father and mother's mother. — Unknown. (10 : no, III n.) 



(86) Father of patient: born 1840: at 14 ran away to sea and went around the 

 world. After several years he was found and brought back by his father, but 

 soon left again and went to California via Panama (in those days a dangerous 

 journey), where he worked in the mines; then he went to war; since the war 

 he has been subject to violent headaches. He worked in the mills, but has 

 done nothing the last 15 years. He married at 25 and has hardly left his 

 New Hampshire village since. Says he has seen all there is to see. His time 

 is spent at home in the house, usually doing nothing; sometimes he will sit 

 for 3 hours in the woodshed with his chin in his hands. He often sits silent a 

 whole afternoon. He will not ride in a train, but walks 8 or 10 miles to sur- 

 rounding towns if he is summoned in case of death of a relative or some equally 

 important matter. His daughter (patient) had dementia precox, and of her 

 brother, a clergyman, the hands tremble violently, especially if excited. He is 

 high-strung, determined, egotistical, selfish. 



Fat'ier's sibs: i-cf, died in Civil War, unmarried. 2-9, unmarried. 

 3 - 9 , married and died in childbirth ; had one daughter who died in the West, 

 leaving 1 child. 4-9, several children; lives in New Hampshire; she was 

 eccentric, silent, submental; became infatuated with a drinking, good-for- 

 nothing man, ran away with him, and died. 5-d 71 , died at 16 years of typhoid. 

 6- 9 , married and had one son, a good reliable worker; drinks some, but is not 

 overcome. 7- 9 , married, but had no children. 



Father's father. — Captain of the State militia; a man of strong character and 

 personality. 



Father's father's sibs: — i-cf, a shoemaker; considered eccentric because he 

 always stayed at home and was uncommunicative. 2-9 , died at 19 years. 

 3-cf, a mechanic; died at 78 years. 4-9 , died at 61 of dysentery. 5-9 , 

 died at 60. 6-cf, living. 7-cf, died young. 



Father's mother. — Was admitted to the State hospital in 1843 at 35 years of 

 age; became noisy and violent, is now still and melancholy; sits or stands as 

 she is placed ; does no work ; has attempted suicide ; had a brother, unknown ; 

 her father was insane, (n : 7.) 



(87) J. M., used considerable liquor by spells; has an uncontrollable rest- 

 lessness, a sort of inability to stay with work and his family and neighbors. 

 (Ancestry unknown.) (12 : 86, IV 25.) 



(88) Propositus, d\ a good deal of a vagrant, but seems to be fairly bright; 

 married, and with his family moves from place to place. Sibs : 1- 9 , died in 

 infancy. 2-cf, born 1859; lives alone; unmarried. 3 -cf, unknown. 4-0", 

 not bright. 5-cf , drowned at 9 years. 6-9 , unknown. 7-cf, odd, but a 

 money-maker. 8-9, died at 1 year of measles. 9-9, died at 8 years of 

 diphtheria. 10- 9 , unknown, n-cf , wanders around the country; married, 

 but living apart from wife. 12-cF, is a farmhand and drives a milk-wagon. 



